Fantastic Result!

Fantastic result!

No I am not going to bore you all to death with Fallowfield show results!  What I am blogging about with great pleasure is the number of entries that we have got for the Alpaca Section of the Northumberland County Show and also the level of Sponsorship.

All Show Organisers will tell you that they worry like hell that they are not going to get the entry numbers in each year to make a really good show.  I don’t know if it is something peculiar to alpaca breeders, but we find that most breeders seem to go right up to the wire and enter their alpacas right at the last minute.

If you had asked me a couple of weeks ago how things were going, I would have been all doom and gloom – especially as we had argued the case with the Tynedale Agricultural Society that we needed a larger tent now that we were going to be on the new showground at Bywell.  We were beginning to think that we were going to look really silly.

When we checked the tent size some weeks ago, we somewhat optimistically decided that we would cap entries at 110 alpacas and (wait for the drum roll!) we have got 103 with four hours to go!  Not only that, we have achieved a record breaking level of sponsorship – thank you all so, so much.

I can only say that I am jolly glad that Mike gets to plan the penning schedule – if anyone can make it work, Mike will!